First Day Tomorrow!

Well, I'm pretty excited, and so is Nature Girl. We made the decision to go ahead and homeschool her for fourth grade, and we start tomorrow! I still need to:

1. Clean up the school room. We revamped it a little, but it needs a good cleaning.

2. Make up a plan for the week. I have a plan book, but feel too confined by it, so I'll
probably just run off some gridded sheets today and fill them in. Most of our
stuff is open and go, but I still like to write it down, at least for the first week!

3. Gather materials for our first day. Need to decide what to do for history, first.

4. Make Nature Girl's Schultute. This is a wonderful German tradition (tho it's generally only
for the very first day of school, not every year) where a child is given school supplies and
various goodies in a paper cone. We use posterboard. I'll post a pic tomorrow.

5. Make a decision as to whether to start history with SOTW or with Homeschool in The
Wood's Explorer's CD-Rom. I'm leaning towards SOTW, adding in the HITW later.

6. Run off sheets for narration/history notebook, and copy the first 6 weeks of Writing With
Ease 3 (it's free on the Peace Hill Press site until the new workbook comes out).

7. Pray! I want to commit our school to the Lord. We've already had the schoolroom blessed
by dear Bishop "Livingstone," but I want to have some prayers and intentionality.

Gotta run! Lots to do!